Josephi Pitton Tournefort Institutiones rei herbariae
A Latin botany treatise by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, printed in Paris in 1700 for students of plant classification and herbal study. Its copperplate engravings show dissected plant parts (flowers, seeds, fruits, stems) labelled with letters keyed to the captions, arranged in numbered plates. A designer might take the clean, systematic layout of labelled specimen diagrams and the fine hatched line work used for botanical detail.
